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Will downloading an antispyware program and an antivirus program mess up my computer?
Question : Will downloading an antispyware program and an antivirus program mess up my computer?
A few weeks ago, I installed a few antivirus programs and a few anti spyware programs, and it totally crashed my computer. Would it be okay to just have one antivirus program and one antispyware program? Will that crash my computer or not?
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Best answer:
Answer by tom s
avg is ok
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#2 written by Catherine S 1 year ago
Virus Protection– 2 programs of virus protection will conflict with each other and will actually cancel out the protection. I suggest Avast OR AVG.
Running Spybot and Defender, with EITHER Avast or Avg (great Free virus protection programs ) will keep a computer in good working condition.
Windows Defender and Spybot are 2 really good Spyware Programs.
Links Below are Programs that WILL Help. They are FREE.
I have Both AVG and Spybot on my computer.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.519
http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-F…Spybot – Search & Destroy 1.5.2
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-De…Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registrati…Ccleaner
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4.html?q…Hope this helps.
Good Luck
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#4 written by iamrunninwithscissors 1 year ago
You do not want to have multiple anti-virus’ on your machine. There are two main reasons for this:
1) Multiple filter level drivers will conflict with one another (Can cause OS to crash).
2) Some AV will detect the other AV as a virus and remove necessary files.It is ok to have antiSpyware run beside antivirus as long as the antispyware does not use a filter level driver.
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#6 written by quietfred 1 year ago
You should only have one antivirus program on your computer. They dont play nicely with other antivirus programs and you get lots of false reports of viruses.
BTW – Try to avoid Nortons anti virus – it is much slower and bigger ( bloated) than free ones like AVG and AntiVir
You can have more than one spyware program – they dont interfere with each other. I like ad-aware and spy bot - Comment Feed for this Post
Many good answers and advice already given. One thing I learned
to do when having multiple antispy and antivirus programs is to
set your own scheduled updates and computer scans times. Many
times these are preset to update and scan when you first turn
on your computer. They slow the computer down, and can lock
it up, especially if you are doing your thing on the computer at
the same time. Plus, they bump heads with each other as they
are trying to do their thing. Schedule each for a different day
or time so that they can run their update and scan without
interference from you or another antispy or antivirus program.
This helped a lot for me.